Calandra Lundy Balas

2005 - 2012

Calandra Lundy Balas obituary, 2005-2012, Mesa, AZ

BORN

2005

DIED

2012

FUNERAL HOME

Resthaven Park Mortuary & Cemetery

4310 East Southern Ave

Phoenix, Arizona

Calandra Balas Obituary

Published by Legacy Remembers on Aug. 16, 2012.

Burial arrangements under the direction of East Resthaven Park Mortuary & Cemetery.

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March 7, 2024

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my darling,

Please give this message to my beloved mother, your dear great-grandmother. Please give her your most enchanting smile and a big hug and kiss from me. Thank you, my darling!

Geraldine Dottie Rewick
10-24-1928--03-07-2012
(Gone but never forgotten!)

My beloved Mom,

I am in loving and tearful remembrance of you today. It has been twelve, long, painful years, since God took you Home to be with Him. A day has not passed, which I have not lovingly thought of you and wished that I had taken the time to convey to you all of the unspoken words in the following poem.

For My Mom

For all the times that I forgot to thank you, For all the special, little things you did, For all the words that sometimes went unspoken, I need to say, “I love you, Mom...I do.”

I loved you for the way you stopped and listened, and for your kindness all throughout the years, For teaching me the meaning of compassion, And sharing in my triumphs and my tears.

And, if at times, I may have seemed ungrateful, I want to say, “I truly hoped you saw, That nothing you had done has been forgotten, And day by day, you just mean more to me.” These sentiments are so very true! I love and miss you, Mom! Heavenly hugs and kisses!

Your most grateful daughter,
Donna
PS Calandra, I love and miss you, also! OXOX

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February 14, 2024

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February 14, 2024

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February 14, 2024

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my most special Valentine Angel,

On this Valentine’s Day I cannot forget the most special, beautiful person, YOU, my precious, young granddaughter, who should be with me today! When everyone spends the day thinking of their loved ones and holding them in warm embrace, I will be holding you, my most precious Angel, in both my mind and heart!

Calandra, my most special Valentine Angel,

I am sending you many heavenly hugs and kisses! OX OX
I love and miss you dearly! Happy Valentine’s Day in heaven!

Grandma

January 23, 2024

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my precious, beautiful granddaughter,
Birthdate: January 23, 2005

Today I, again, will be in sad and painful remembrance of you as I, like the past eleven years, try to envision what you would have looked like each year since your passing. Most sadly, my earthly, last precious, memories of you were at the young age of seven and one-half years old. Today I am trying to envision the beautiful, earthy, young woman you would have evolved into at the age of nineteen years old. Without a doubt, you still would have had the radiant beauty of your lovely, porcelain complexion, big, blue eyes, long dark eyelashes, cute nose, long, brown hair and most enchanting smile! And, you would have grown in stature, most likely, taller than me, your grandma. Your girly figure would have transitioned into a lovely, young woman’s curvaceous figure. And, you would be attired in beautiful dresses, which you loved to wear. Your earthly self would have been most beautiful and perfect in every way!

Calandra, my precious, beautiful granddaughter,

I was in awe by your earthly, immense love and compassion that you possessed and generously gave to others, at such a young age! Most assuredly, I strongly believe that you would have acquired so many more special and blessed attributes from God! You were one of God’s most beautiful creations!!

Calandra, my precious, beautiful granddaughter,

Today would have been, should have been, your earthly, nineteenth birthday! I will never, ever, let today become just another day! It forever will be “your special day”! Happy Birthday in heaven, my precious beautiful, granddaughter! I hope that you can feel all of the love I am sending your heavenly way! I am so very lonely here on earth without you!!

Happy heavenly birthday! Hugs and kisses! OX OX
Grandma

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January 23, 2024

Grandma Donna

Calandra, darling,

Please give the following message to my beloved Dad, your dear, great-granddad, along with your most sweet, enchanting smile! Thank you, daring!

~In Loving Remembrance Of My Beloved Dad~
Ralph Everett Rewick, Jr.
Oct. 24, 1927—Jan. 23, 2009
(Fifteen years gone, but never forgotten!)

My beloved Dad,

The following poem expresses my exact, true feelings about you!

I lost a Dad with a heart of gold.
He meant more to me than wealth untold.
God took his hand, and we had to part.
He eased his pain but broke my heart.

In life he toiled, in heaven he rests.
God bless you Dad! You were the best!

My beloved Dad,

You were my hero, my protector and my advisor! You were the first man I ever loved! Without you, I have lost my life’s way! I have never outgrown my great need for you! My beloved Dad, I miss your sweet smile, your warm embrace and your loving guidance! I miss EVERYTHING about you! Time will never erase my immense love and many, precious memories of you!

My beloved Dad,

You were the BEST! And, I, forever will thank God enormously for the wonderful, sweet, earthly blessing of you! I love and miss you dearly! OX OX

Your loving and grateful daughter,
Donna

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January 1, 2024

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my darling granddaughter,

Another New Year is upon us, and, like the past ones, I, again, am facing this one with great apprehension! I am praying to God that this will be the year that I will be able to finally find peace of mind, joy of heart and forgiveness of “one”! These three prayerful needs of mine stem from your most tragic, senseless and needless death! When God took you Home to be with Him the joy left my heart, and I have not yet been able to obtain the great peace of mind needed from the closure of your death! My darling, I cannot get closure from your death, and I still cannot find forgiveness in my heart for the “one” who was totally and blatantly responsible for your death, the “one” who betrayed your trust and unconditional love for him! My darling, I, most assuredly, know that it is only with God’s love and help, that I ever will be able to acquire the much-needed peace, joy and forgiveness in my life, that I once had when you graced my life with your most beautiful, precious, earthly presence! I know that God will hear my prayer! And, I put my complete faith and trust in Him to do His will!

Calandra, my darling granddaughter,

I love and miss you so very much! OX OX Heavenly New Year wishes to you and all of our heavenly loved ones!

Grandma

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December 25, 2023

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December 25, 2023

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December 25, 2023

Grandma Donna

My most beautiful, heavenly Christmas Angel,

Calandra,

Another Christmas without you! Another day of tears and pain! There is no Christmas tree, no decorations! Only sad memories and many regrets! When God took you to be with Him the joy of everything left my heart! That joy will never return until that glorious day when I, once again, see your most beautiful self in Heaven! I greatly long for that day!

My darling,

I LOVE & MISS YOU! Heavenly Christmas greetings and lots of hugs and kisses for you! OXOX

Grandma

November 23, 2023

Grandma Donna

My precious, darling granddaughter,

Today, on this Thanksgiving Day, I will give thanks to God for all of my many blessings. And, my darling, it would be amiss of me not to thank God for you, also. I do greatly thank God for the short, seven and one-half years He blessed me with your most beautiful, earthly presence in my life. You, my darling, were my most wonderful God-sent blessing! I cherished immensely our many precious, happy, times spent together. My darling, ever since Heaven has become your home, there has been a great void in my life. My heart still aches over your enormous loss. And, the tears still flow, for I am so very lonely here without you. I do find solace in just knowing that you now are in God’s loving and protective care!

My precious, darling granddaughter,

Happy Thanksgiving Day to you and all of our loved ones in Heaven. I think of Heaven as being a most beautiful place where every day is a day of thanksgiving for God and His precious Son Jesus! Oh, my darling, how I pray that one day I will be fortunate to be reunited with you in Heaven for all eternity! At that wonderful point in time my heartache would forever cease, and my tears would turn to joy! What a most glorious day that would be!

PLEASE, never forget how very much I, your grandma, love and miss you! Heavenly hugs and kisses, my darling! XO XO

With so much love,
Grandma

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August 1, 2023

Grandma Donna

Calandra Lundy Balas
Jan. 23, 2005~Aug. 01, 2012
Eleven Years Gone, But Never, Ever Forgotten

Calandra, my precious granddaughter,

Today is a day of great sadness, many tears, and immense heartache for me. Today, like the past ten years, I will be in agonizing remembrance of both your most tragic death and great loss! I have not been able to obtain comfort and closure over both your death and loss because, undeniably, both your death and loss were senseless, needless and preventable! I most strongly believe that I will only find my much-needed comfort, peace and closure over both your death and loss when God blesses me with the opportunity to, once again, see you in your heavenly home! Then, I will be able to see your beautiful self and enchanting smile! I then will be able to warmly embrace you and shower you with many kisses and verbal expressions of “I LOVE YOU”! I MISSED YOU! Then, and only then, I will finally find the comfort, peace and closure over you death and loss, which earth could never afford me! I greatly rejoice in thinking of that glorious day!

Calandra, my precious granddaughter,

I know that you now are in God’s loving arms, forever safe from harm! Hallelujah!

I love and miss you! Heavenly hugs and kisses!
Grandma

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June 18, 2023

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my beautiful granddaughter,

Please give this message to my beloved father, your sweet great-grandfather, along with your most enchanting smile. Thank you, darling!

Happy Heavenly Father’s Day, my beloved Dad!

My Dad was like no other! He was priceless, beyond compare!
He never looked for praises! He was never one to boast! He just went quietly working for the ones he loved the most! His dreams were seldom spoken! His wants were very few, and most of the time his worries went unspoken too! He was my firm foundation, through all my storms of life, a sturdy hand to hold on to, in my times of stress and strife! He was my true friend I could turn to when times were good or bad! One of the greatest blessings God gifted me, was my most priceless, beloved Dad! His nature was loving and giving! His heart was made of pure gold! And to me, who truly loved him, his memory will never grow old!
Heavenly hugs & kisses, Dad! I miss you!

Your loving daughter,
Donna
PS. Calandra, I love & miss you, too! XO XO

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May 14, 2023

Grandma Donna

HAPPY, HEAVENLY MOTHER’S DAY!

My dearest, beloved Mom,

You always understood the things I said and did.
You overlooked each of my faults. You found the best instead.

Your love was a special love, it inspired me each day.
You spread your joy and happiness in your warm and caring way.

You were all of these things and, oh, so much more.
You will always be the precious Mom I love and adore.

My dearest, beloved Mom,

I celebrate you on this, “your special day”! I am immensely grateful
for all the love, caring and guidance you gave me! Your most wonderful,
sweet presence in my life was a great blessing! I will forever thank God
for you and the precious years He gave us!

Too well loved, to ever be forgotten! Heavenly hugs and kisses!

Your most grateful daughter,
Donna

PS.- Calandra, my heavenly Angel, I love and miss you, also! OX OX

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April 9, 2023

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April 9, 2023

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April 9, 2023

Grandma Donna

My precious Calandra,

These two pictures were of your very first Easter. Upon arriving at your dear, great-grandparents’ house, I immediately saw you in the backyard hunting for Easter eggs. You were a most adorable sight! You were donned in a cute short set- a floral print top and blue denim shorts. And your small white sandals completed your cute Easter outfit. I had to laugh at the Easter basket you were toting, for it was way large compared to your small, petite size. My precious one, you had such a pensive look upon your beautiful face, as you intently looked for the hidden Easter eggs to fill your large basket. This is such a beautiful memory, which I shall always cherish. Yet, I cannot hold back the tears. My precious one, I have not been able to celebrate Easter with you, since God took you home to be with Him on that most fateful day.

My precious Calandra,

I love and miss you so, very much! Easter hugs and kisses! XO XO

Grandma

March 7, 2023

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my darling,

Please give my beloved mother, your dear great-grandmother this message, along with your most enchanting smile and a big hug and kiss. Thank you, my darling!

Geraldine Dottie Rewick
Oct. 24, 1928-Mar. 07, 2012

My beloved Mom,

It has been eleven years since you passed, but it feels like only yesterday! The pain of losing you is still as fresh as ever. Time is suppose to heal the wounds, but it seems as though all it does is make me miss you even more, each day you are gone.

My beloved Mom,

I find comfort in knowing that you are now in God’s loving care, forever free of your earthly pain and suffering. I still miss you very much, and my heart is filled with love, whenever I think of you. You are always on my mind and forever in my heart! Gone but never, ever forgotten! OX OX

Your most grateful daughter,
Donna

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February 14, 2023

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February 14, 2023

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my darling,

You are my special Valentine, who now resides in heaven above. Sadly, I can no longer send to you a special Valentine’s Day card. Therefore, I will send to you my forever love! You will never be forgotten on this very special date!

My special, heavenly Valentine,

May you be blessed today with many angel hugs and sweet, butterfly kisses!

You are dearly loved and greatly missed! OX OX

Grandma Donna

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January 23, 2023

Family

Laura Byrne

Oh Calandra! Your sister Emma is thinking of you today and wishing you were here. Rest in peace sweet girl. We love you so very much!

January 23, 2023

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my beautiful granddaughter,

Please give this message to my beloved Dad, your dear Great-Grandpa. Please give him a big hug and kiss from me. Thank you darling.

My most beloved Dad,
Oct. 24, 1927-Jan. 23, 2009

Today I am in sad and tearful remembrance of you, for today marks fourteen years, since God took you home to be with Him. It is said that time eases both pain and grief over the loss of a loved one. However, I, myself, have not found that to be true. To the contrary, as the time (years) have passed, since I last saw you, Dad, the pain and grief over your loss has been ever more present. I, in fact, miss you greatly, “even more so”, with each passing year. Your leaving this earth has left an enormous void in my life. My life will never be the same or complete until I, once again, see your face and your smile, hear your voice and your laughter, and feel your embrace and your kisses.

My most beloved Dad,

If my prayers are answered, one day, God will bless me greatly with your glorious, heavenly presence! Hallelujah! Heavenly hugs and kisses, Dad!
I love and miss you everyday!

Your loving and grateful daughter,
Donna

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January 23, 2023

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my beautiful granddaughter,

Oh, what do I say to you? It is with many tears that I struggle to convey to you this message. Today would have been, should have been, your earthly, milestone, eighteenth birthday. My beautiful granddaughter, you were such a wonderful, God-sent blessing to me! I shall forever give thanks unto Him for sharing you with me! Even though your seven and one half, earthly years with me were way-to short, you blessed my life immensely with abundant, great joy! You were so beautiful inside and out, and you possessed such an amazing, loving heart!

I wish, with all my heart, that we could be together today, even for a short time. I wish that I, personally, could warmly embrace you within my arms, shower you with many kisses and say to you, “happy birthday, my beautiful granddaughter and heavenly angel”! I know that this is not to be, so I will go about today, as I do daily, looking at your many, beautiful, framed pictures and holding close to mind and heart my most precious, treasured memories of you!

Calandra, my beautiful granddaughter, I long to see your most beautiful, angelic self, with your big, beautiful, blue eyes and most enchanting smile! I pray to God that one day I will have that glorious blessing! I pray to God that I will hold you in my arms again! May God answer my prayers!

Forever Missed! Forever loved!
Your grandma

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January 1, 2023

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my heavenly angel,

Another new year is upon us, and, for me, with it comes great trepidation, because it will be another year without you! Without you, I, again, will face a year of loneliness, heartache, sadness and tears! My heavenly angel, each year I miss you more! I miss everything about you! I forever will hold you close to me in memory and heart!

I wish you a most beautiful, glorious new year in heaven. I am sending you lots of hugs and kisses!

With so much love,
Grandma Donna

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December 25, 2022

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my beautiful Christmas Angel,

The following poem expresses my exact sentiments!

Christmas In Heaven

I’m wondering what Christmas in Heaven is like
As I grieve alone and pray,
longing for one who has gone before
To spend Christmas in Heaven today.
And so in my dreams I wander far
From the scenes and sounds of earth.
I catch the strains of the Heavenly choir,
As they sing of the Christ Child’s birth.
The Angels I envision there,
As they join in the glorious array,
And there amid the throng is my Loved One
Spending Christmas in Heaven today!
~Author Unknown~

Calandra, my beautiful Christmas Angel,

I am celebrating Christmas with you in mind and heart today! I hope that you know that you are loved dearly and missed greatly every day of the year! Heavenly Christmas hugs and kisses to you, my beautiful Christmas Angel!
Happy Birthday, Jesus!

Grandma Donna

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November 24, 2022

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my darling,

Today on Thanksgiving I will give thanks unto God for my many blessings. And, my darling, I will be giving immense thanks to God for having blessed my life with the most precious gift of you! Although our time together on earth was way to short, I cherished every wonderful moment with you! Your sweet presence brought such great joy to my heart! My life is so very empty and lonely without you! Even though I am tearfully sad that you are gone, I know that you are resting in eternal glory with Jesus!

My darling, I have a beautiful and comforting vision of you today. I envision you gleefully playing with the other young angels in Heaven’s Playground. I can vividly see your enchanting smile, as you soar high on the swings, and I can see vividly, also, you picking your favorite, colorful roses and other flowers in Heaven’s Garden. Lastly, I have the glorious vision of you, along with the other young angels, seated at Heaven’s Table and partaking of Heavenly manna with God! My darling, I will hold this comforting vision close to mind and heart, as I painfully persevere through another sad Thanksgiving without you! Happy, Heavenly Thanksgiving, my darling!
I love and miss you! Heavenly hugs and kisses!

Grandma Donna

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November 24, 2022

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October 24, 2022

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my beautiful granddaughter,

Please give this message, along with your enchanting smile and a big hug and kiss, to my beloved parents, your sweet great-grandparents. Thank you, darling!

Ralph E. Rewick, Jr.
10-24-1927–01-23-2009
Geraldine D. Rewick
10-24-1928-03-07-2012

My most beloved parents,

Today is filled with many, precious memories of both of you, along with both happiness and tears, for today would have been both your earthly mutual birthdays! I will miss forever the endless love and immense joy you both brought into my life! You both may be gone, but you both will always be close to me in mind and heart! I thank God greatly for having blessed me with the two most wonderful and amazing parents!

A heavenly, happy birthday to you both! Birthday hugs and kisses!

My forever love and enormous gratitude,
Donna

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August 1, 2022

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my darling granddaughter,

It has been ten years without you! The time with you was so brief! You were a mere seven and one-half years old when God reclaimed you as His own. Ten years have passed and I still grieve. Your loss left an immense, unfillable void in my life, for you were my light, my joy, my love, my everything! Although ten years have come and gone, my missing you is still so very strong. It is an undeniable fact that my loneliness, sorrow, heartache, and tears will never cease until I draw my last breath. Until that time I shall hold close in mind and heart your precious memories. I shall forever thank God for the most wonderful blessing of having been your grandmother! I love and miss you, darling! And, I am so very lonely here without you!

Heavenly hugs and kisses,
Grandma Donna

Calandra Lundy Balas
Jan. 23, 2005-Aug. 01, 2012
Gone but never forgotten!

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June 26, 2022

Grandma Donna

Calandra, darling, June 26, 2022

Please give the following message to my beloved parents, your sweet great-grandparents. Thank you, darling!

My dearest beloved parents,

On this most special day, which would have been your earthly, wedding anniversary, I am in profound thought of both of you. You both are credited for making me the person I am today. Everything that I had learned about life and love I learned from both of you. As wonderful parents, you both were exemplary, marital, role models to me. In truth, I had always wanted my own marriage to fully emulate your marriage. I had enormous respect and admiration for you both and your wonderful marriage. Your long, loving enduring marriage to one another was a living testament as to your loving and trusting commitment to one another. The most important thing I had learned from your amazing marriage was that both your dedicated love and unwavering trust for one another was hugely instrumental in securing and assuring the strong endurance of your celebrated long, wonderful marriage. Without a doubt, your love for one another grew substantially with each passing year because of your combined love and trust for one another. It is an undeniable fact that a marriage will fail, not prevail, without both love and trust embodied within it.

My dearest beloved Parents-Mom & Dad,

I will thank forever God for having blessed me with the greatest, loving parents! God is good! I love and miss you both! Lots of hugs & kisses!

Your loving and grateful daughter,
Donna
PS. Calandra, darling, I love and miss you, also! Heavenly hugs and kisses!

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June 19, 2022

Grandma Donna

Calandra, precious,

Please give this message to my beloved father, your sweet great-grandfather. Please give him your enchanting smile and many hugs and kisses from me.

My most beloved Dad,
To me every day is Father’s Day, for you are in my loving thoughts daily. I greatly miss your wonderful, earthly presence. There is a forever vast, unfillable void in my life, and I miss you more with each passing year. Since your immense loss I have endured many heartaches and difficult dilemmas. Last year I suffered a grave injustice which, senselessly and needlessly, was perpetrated upon me. It turned my whole world completely upside down, and it literally shook me to my core. It devastated me emotionally and did irreparable harm to my physical health, as well. I still am unable to purge my mind of it. At that extremely painful and horrific time I immediately thought of you, Dad. I wanted to tearfully run into your warm, comforting arms. I desperately wanted to derive much needed strength and words of wisdom from you, along with your loving protection, encouragement and guidance. It has been at these most tumultuous times that I have felt your tremendous loss even more. It is at these times that I realize and face the undeniable fact that “I will never outgrow my need for you, my beloved Dad.”! I love and miss you so very much, Dad! Happy Father’s Day in Heaven!

Your loving daughter,
Donna
PS Calandra, precious, I love and miss you, too! Heavenly hugs and kisses!

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May 8, 2022

Grandma Donna

Calandra, darling,
Please give this message to my dear mother, your sweet great- grandmother. Please give her your beautiful, enchanting smile and a big hug and kiss from me. Thank you, darling!

My dearest Mom,
It is Mother’s Day, and I am filled with profound sadness. The tears will flow, as I feel your continuing, earthly absence in my life. It will be a day of mixed emotions. My life has never been the same ever since God reclaimed you for His own!

My dearest Mom, I miss you immensely!
I miss your smiles. They brightened my every moment.
I miss your hugs. They put joy in my heart all of my days.
I miss everything about you!

I will always be thankful for the many values you taught me.
I will always be thankful for the selfless care you gave me.
I will always be thankful for the unconditional love you showed me.
I will always be thankful for everything!

My dearest Mom,
You were one of God’s most beautiful creations, and I forever will give thanks unto Him for blessing me with the loveliest Mom, who was the dearest and the best! I love and miss you Mom today and always! I wish you a joyous Mother’s Day in heaven!

Your grateful daughter,
Donna
PS: Calandra, darling, I love and miss you, also!

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March 7, 2022

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my precious granddaughter,

Please give this message to my beloved mother, your sweet great-grandmother. Thank you precious!

Geraldine Dottie Rewick
10-24-1928 to 03-07-2012
Ten years gone, but never forgotten!

Mom,
The following poem expresses my exact sentiments about you.

HEAVEN NEEDED MOM

So many things of Mom I miss
Her gentle hug and tender kiss.
I still can feel her warm embrace,
And picture yet her loving face.

A mother’s tasks are never done,
And Heaven must have needed one.
For angels came and took her hand,
And led her to God’s promised land.

Although there’s sadness, this I know
She’s waiting there, her face aglow.
I close my eyes, and I can see
Her arms still open wide for me.

~Author Unknown~

Mom,
I miss everything about you! I truly never learned what the words
“I miss you” were until I reached for your hand, and it wasn’t there.”

My forever love,
Donna

PS Calandra, I love and miss you, also!

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February 23, 2022

Grandma Donna

Ralph E. Rewick, Jr.
10-24-1927 to 01-23-2009
“Gone but never forgotten”

My most beloved dad,

This entry was intended to be submitted a month ago today on January 23, 2022. Much to my regret, due to illness, I was unable to compose or enter it. I deeply apologize for its lateness. Not a day passes that I do not think of you. It may be thirteen years, since God took you to be with Him, but the pain of your great loss is still ever present in both my heart and mind. My immense need for your earthly presence in my life increases with each day. I have yearned for your love, advice, strength and encouragement! You were my hero, my mentor and my protector!

My most beloved dad,

I have learned during my lifetime that you, alone, were the only man I could completely trust and always depend upon unequivocally! My life is incomplete without you. I embrace and cherish my many, precious memories of you, which are tucked away in a very special place in my heart.

My most beloved dad, I love and miss you! A big heavenly hug and kiss for you!

Your forever grateful daughter,
Donna

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February 23, 2022

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my most beautiful granddaughter,

“Happy Heavenly Birthday”



This entry was intended to be submitted a month ago today on January 23, 2022, which would have been your earthly birthday. However, due to my illness, it is now late, for which I sincerely apologize.



It is so very incredibly hard to believe that you would have, should have, celebrated your seventeenth, earthly birthday this year! The last time I saw your beautiful self, while hugging each other, I remember saying to you, “Calandra, you are getting so tall”! You looked up at me with those big blue eyes and blessed my heart with your most lovely, enchanting smile! Little did I know that that would be my last memory of you! On what would have been your earthly, seventeenth birthday this year I struggled to envision how much taller you would be now! I do know, without a doubt, that you would have blossomed into a most wonderful, beautiful, young lady, still possessing that lovely enchanting smile! The immense, painful reality is that all I have now are conjured visions of you! Without your sweet, earthly presence there are no more birthday celebrations with you! There are no new memories of you! There are no more sweet pictures of you! They all ceased forever on the day God reclaimed you for His own beautiful, heavenly angel! I cherish greatly my precious memories of you, and I try to derive comfort and peace from them! Your beautiful pictures and memories evoke from me more tears than smiles! With God’s help I hope one day to be able to find peace over your tragic death!



Calandra, my most beautiful angel, I am so very lonely without you! I love and miss you! Heavenly hugs and kisses!



Grandma Donna

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January 1, 2022

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my most precious granddaughter,

Another new year is upon me! And, like the past nine new years, it will be one, which I will enter into most reluctantly!

For, sadly and tearfully, it, again, will be another new year without your sweet, beautiful, earthly presence in my life!

Since God took you home to be with Him, my life has never been the same!

No earthly amount of time will ever heal my heart of the pain, loneliness and despair I feel over your great loss!

As the years come and go I forever will think about you, I forever will miss you, and I forever will love you!

Happy New Year in heaven, my most precious granddaughter!

And, also, my heavenly new year wishes to all of our loved ones in heaven!

With love, hugs and kisses,
Grandma

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December 25, 2021

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my lovely Christmas Angel,

Today is another Christmas without you! I dread immensely this time every year, for when God took you home to be with Him, all of the joy for the Christmas season and festivities left my heart. No longer is there a tall, decorated Christmas tree. No longer are there whimsical, Christmas items and pictures displayed on the many shelves and fireplace mantel. No longer are there lit candles, draped, shiny tinsel and green garland and decorated wreaths. No longer displayed are the large snowman, stacked gifts and gold reindeer in front of the fireplace. And, no longer are there many potted, colorful red poinsettias. All of the Christmas decorations are packed away and stored.

Calandra, my lovely Christmas Angel,

I now focus my entire mind and heart on the true meaning of Christmas. I completely acknowledge the birth of the Christ child, our Savior, whose death upon the cross paid our sin debt in full. And, upon our acceptance of Christ as our Savior, and asking Him forgiveness of our sins, we can be blessed with salvation and the promise of everlasting life! Praise be to Him! Christ is the greatest, most blessed birthday gift given to all, and today we should all honor Him on His glorious birthday!

Calandra, my lovely Christmas Angel,

I can envision you, and the other little angels amassed at Christ’s feet, sweetly singing to Him songs of praise, as you celebrate His blessed, glorious birthday! Although I am still heartbroken, and I still cry over your great loss, every Christmas I will find comfort and peace in knowing that you are with the One we celebrate this time each year! You are with our blessed Savior! Hallelujah!

Calandra, my lovely Christmas Angel,

Please give my beloved parents, your dear great-grandparents and all of my loved ones my heavenly Christmas greetings! I love and miss them all! Also, my heavenly Christmas greetings to you! I love and miss you, also!

Christmas hugs and kisses to you,
Grandma

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November 25, 2021

Grandma Donna

My darling Calandra, November 25, 2021

Today is Thanksgiving! It is a day to give thanks unto God for the many blessings He has bestowed upon us. It is also a day to reflect upon our many loved ones, whose earthly presences are no longer with us. Their non-participation in present Thanksgiving festivities is missed immensely. It brings abundant tears to many, as they feel their voids in both their hearts and lives!

My darling Calandra,

Today I will be thanking God for my own personal, many blessings. I will be thanking Him for affording me the most precious blessing of having had your sweet, earthly presence in my life! Sadly, even though your time on earth was only seven and one-half years, the love and joy you brought me was immeasurable! Tears still flow and my heart still aches over your great loss! And, I, most assuredly, know that the pain of losing you will never cease until I draw my last breath! It will never cease until I see your heavenly beautiful self! I pray that day will happen!

I, also, miss greatly all of my loved ones and friends who now reside with you in heaven.
Please give both your great-grandma and great-grandpa a big Thanksgiving hug and kiss from me. Please tell them that I love and miss them! Thank you, my darling.

I love and miss you greatly, also! Big Thanksgiving hugs and kisses to you, my darling!

My eternal love,
Grandma Donna

PS May we all be ever mindful to give thanks unto God for our daily blessings!

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October 24, 2021

Grandma Donna

Geraldine Dottie Rewick
October 24, 1928~March 07, 2012
Ralph Everett Rewick, Jr.
October 24, 1927~January 23, 2009

I wish you both a mutual happy, heavenly birthday!

My dearest Mom,

Today I am remembering your past, earthly birthday celebrations, which we shared with one another. The beautiful memories evoke much happiness, as well as abundant tears. I will always miss you, but the endless joy you brought me both warms my heart with endless gratitude and fills my every thought. In your glorious, heavenly abode I hope that you can see how precious and uplifting of spirit your memory is to me. I feel your heavenly spirit with me in everything I do. Today I will be in sweet remembrance of your most special day, but I’ll spend it loving and missing you. I thank God for having blessed me with the most wonderful Mom!

Happy heavenly birthday, Mom! Hugs and kisses!

All my love,
Donna

My dearest Dad,

My mind is flooded with many past, earthly birthday memories of you. They fill my heart with the warmth I have missed so much since you went away. I always knew that I could depend upon you in great times of need. You were always there with a helping hand, along with such a gentle, kind and strong demeanor. When I think about the precious, lovely times we had together, I long to thank you, once again, for being a perfect Dad. Your love and guidance has brought me much needed earthly strength and courage. I will be thinking of you today on your special day with both big smiles and many tears. I love and miss you, Dad! I will always thank God for the sweet, most wonderful blessing of you!

Happy heavenly birthday, Dad! Hugs and kisses!

All my love,
Donna

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August 1, 2021

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my beautiful granddaughter,
January 23, 2005-August 01, 2012
~In Loving Remembrance~

The following poem depicts the exact, different emotions, which I have experienced, since your great loss, nine years ago today!

Forever Missed
Yesterday I felt okay
I smiled when I thought of you --
I remembered happy times
and the funny things you’d do.

But today, I feel so very sad
I think of you and cry –
I’m missing you so very much
and still asking God, why?

I don’t know what will happen
when I face another day –
What will tomorrow bring?
Will I cry or be okay?

This roller coaster of emotions
is the worst ride of my life –
Nothing can prepare you
for the never ending strife.

I may not handle my emotions
the way that I should do –
But I still thank God
for the time I had with you.
~Author Unknown~

Calandra, my beautiful granddaughter,
Indeed, the past years have been a “roller coaster of emotions” for me, with unpredictable feelings of both highs and lows. One day your memories can evoke from me smiles and happiness, and another day your memories can evoke from me tears and despair. However, I, most assuredly, do know what emotions this day will bring. Like all past years, on this date, my tears will flow abundantly, as I think of you and recall all of the most painful events of the day you departed from this earth! And, “yes”, I am still missing you greatly, and I am still asking God, “why?” There are so many “whys?”

Calandra, my beautiful granddaughter,
I will thank God forever for the most precious time I had with you! You were my wonderful, sweet blessing from God! I LOVE and MISS you! Heavenly hugs and kisses to you!
Grandma Donna

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June 26, 2021

Grandma Donna

Calandra, precious,

Please give the following message, along with your enchanting smile and hugs and kisses, to my two, beloved parents, your two, sweet great-grandparents. Thank you, precious!

Mom and Dad,
Sixty-one wedding anniversaries!
Sixty-one years of beautiful, endearing love and strong, faithful commitment!

Today I am in deep thought of both of you, as I fondly remember your past, earthly wedding anniversaries. You both were two, devoted soulmates. Your long, enduring marriage and abundant, endearing love was an inspiration to all, especially to me, your daughter. As parents you both gave me a living example of a solid, happy, blessed marriage, one that I, myself, aspired to have one day.

Mom, you were greatly instrumental in me being the faithful, loving, respectful wife to my husband, as you, yourself, were to your husband, my Dad.

Dad, you were greatly instrumental in my choice of a husband. He, most definitely, would have to possess the same strong, admirable attributes as you.

Thank you both for being my wonderful, earthly parents, my two God-given blessings!
You made my life beautiful and so full of love!

Although you both are no longer with me, I will always remember your special wedding anniversary date. You both are gone, but never forgotten! You both are missed, but always loved! You both are gone, but I feel your spirit!

Happy Wedding Anniversary in Heaven!

Your most grateful daughter,
Donna

PS Calandra, precious, I love and miss you, also! Heavenly hugs and kisses to you!

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June 20, 2021

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my heavenly messenger,

Please give this message to my beloved father, your sweet great-grandfather. Please give him your enchanting smile and a big hug and kiss from me, your grandmother. Thank you, darling!

MEMORIES OF YOU DAD
ON FATHER’S DAY

Today is full of happy thoughts
And memories so dear
Of times we spent together
Through the years you were here.

It’s a day of admiration
And gratitude as well
For a Father who was treasured
More than words can ever tell!

A day of contemplation
To remember and revere
To send you love forever
And to wish that you were here.
~Author Unknown~

Dad,

The above poem conveys my exact, heartfelt Father’s Day sentiments for you! I do wish with all my heart that you were here with me today! To hear your voice, to see your smile, to feel your warm embrace, and just to sit and talk to you would bless and comfort my heart immensely! My precious, beloved Dad, I love and miss you on this Father’s Day and always! Happy Father’s Day in Heaven!

Your most grateful daughter,
Donna

PS Calandra, darling, I love and miss you, also! Heavenly hugs and kisses to you!

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May 9, 2021

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my beautiful messenger,

Would you please give the following letter to my beloved mother, your sweet great- grandmother, along with your enchanting smile and a hug and kiss? Thank you, darling!
Mom, today is Mother’s Day, and I give honor and tribute to you! The following poem’s sentiments greatly touch my heart, for so much of what I am today is because of you! Your loving nurturing and constant guidance has helped me to weather through the many storms of my life. And, I only have to think of you, my beloved mother, my wonderful mentor and amazing, role model, to feel proud of all of the many values and attributes you have instilled in me. I have aspired always to be like you! And, I hope that you will be proud always of me, as I carry on your beautiful, wonderful legacy. May God help me in this most, great endeavor! Mom, it is of the utmost importance to me that you will be proud of me always, as I live my earthly life according to your wishes. I would like to envision you today looking down from heaven with your lovely smile of pride and acceptance of me! “I hope today you feel the love reflected back from me!”


My Mother Kept A Garden

My Mother kept a garden,
a garden of the heart,
She planted all the good things
that gave my life its start.
She turned me to the sunshine
and encouraged me to dream,
Fostering and nurturing
the seeds of self-esteem
And when the winds and rain came,
she protected me enough-
But not too much because she knew
I’d need to stand up strong and tough.
Her constant good example
always taught me right from wrong-
Markers for my pathway
that will last a lifetime long.
I am my Mother’s garden.
I am her legacy-
And I hope today she feels the love
reflected back from me.

Author Unknown

My beloved mother, you are forever with me in heart and mind! I love and miss you!
Happy Mother’s Day in heaven!

Your most grateful daughter,
Donna
PS Calandra, darling, I love and miss you, also! Hugs and kisses!

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April 4, 2021

Grandma Donna

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April 4, 2021

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April 4, 2021

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my darling granddaughter,

Sadly, today is another Easter without you! I will try to focus on my many, precious, memories of past, earthly Easters we shared with one another. Hopefully, they will help me to persevere through this painful day. One particular, sweet memory of you is when you participated in the annual Easter egg hunt at the community park where I reside. You looked so very beautiful, as you joined with the other children in filling your Easter basket with the colorful Easter eggs. You participated in many fun activities, including inflatable, bouncing houses, pony rides and hot balloon rides. However, without a doubt, you found the most delight in the onsite petting zoo, where you petted, ever so carefully and lovingly, the cute, bunny rabbits and whimsical, small goats (kids). This most precious and joyous Easter memory of you blesses my heart!

My darling granddaughter, it breaks my heart greatly knowing that you were not given the opportunity to ever enjoy any future Easter celebrations, after the young age of seven years. I can envision only what I believe you would have evolved into at each Easter time. You, most assuredly, would have been even more beautiful with each Easter, and like a delicate rosebud you would have slowly blossomed from a lovely, young lady into an amazing beautiful woman!

Calandra, my beautiful granddaughter, I love and miss you immensely!

Easter hugs and kisses!
Grandma Donna

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April 4, 2021

Grandma Donna

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March 7, 2021

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my heavenly messenger,

Would you please give the following message to my dearest mother, your sweet great-grandmother? Please give her your enchanting smile and a big hug and kiss from me.

Geraldine Dottie Rewick
Oct. 24, 1928-Mar. 07, 2012
Nine years gone, but never forgotten!

~You’re Forever In My Heart~

For all you were to me in life
And all the joy you brought,
Your memory is with me
In every single thought.

The pain I felt at losing you
Will never go away,
But knowing that
you’re in my heart
Helps me through each day.

When you were here I always felt
That nothing could go wrong,
But you’re still my inspiration,
And your memory keeps me strong.

And although my heart is heavy
It’s also full of love,
And that’s enough to comfort me
While you’re in Heaven above.
Author Unknown

My dearest Mom,

The above poem expresses my own, exact sentiments. I dread this day each year, for it is filled with sadness and tears over your great loss. The years have passed, but the heartache and pain of your loss is ever present with me, in both heart and mind. I look daily upon your beautiful picture and lovingly think of you and all of the many, precious memories you left me. I try to derive comfort from each and every one. You shall always hold a very special place in my heart, reserved for you, alone. You gave my heart so much joy and my life so much love. I thank you immensely for having been my most wonderful, blessed, earthly Mom! I LOVE & MISS YOU!

Your most grateful daughter,
Donna

PS Calandra, my heavenly messenger, I love and miss you, also! Hugs & kisses!

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February 14, 2021

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my darling granddaughter,

Today is Valentine’s Day, a day set apart to extend loving wishes to one another. I can no longer send you a Valentine’s Day card. I, personally, can no longer embrace you and tell you how much I love you. However, today I will be thinking of you, and I will be sending to you much love and many, heavenly hugs and kisses.

I shall always thank God for you! During your short years on earth you touched my heart with gleeful laughter, blessed my life with abundant happiness and filled my world with immense love! You were so very special!

Calandra, my darling granddaughter,

You will be always loved and forever missed! Happy Valentine’s Day in heaven!

Grandma Donna

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January 23, 2021

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my beautiful Granddaughter,

Today would have been your earthly, sweet, sixteenth birthday. I try to imagine what you would have been like at your, earthly age of sweet sixteen. Would you have been quite tall in stature and more beautiful? Most assuredly! Would you still have possessed your enchanting smile and infectious laughter? Most definitely! Would you still have enthralled everyone with your unique, sweet personality? Without a doubt! Would you still have enjoyed long, bubble baths? Positively! Would you still have delighted in the sight of bunny rabbits and the scent of lovely flowers? Absolutely! Would you still have loved colorful balloons and the swings in the park? For certain!

Calandra, my beautiful Granddaughter,

Everything that I have imagined about you, at your earthly, age of sweet sixteen, I have derived from the many, precious memories I have of you during your short life on this earth. However, I, unequivocally, do know that, at your earthly, age of sweet sixteen, you would have evolved into an amazing, beautiful, young lady, possessing great poise, grace and charm. You would have had a most kind, loving, compassionate heart, which would have brightened and uplifted the spirits of all. You, my beautiful Granddaughter, would have been a most magnificent blessing to all! You would have been a glorious, precious gift from God!

Calandra, my beautiful Granddaughter,

Although we cannot be together today to celebrate your earthly, sweet sixteen birthday, I can rejoice in knowing that you will be celebrating it in Heaven with God! I, your Grandmother, love and miss you so very much! Heavenly hugs and kisses!

HAPPY HEAVENLY BIRTHDAY!
Grandma Donna

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January 23, 2021

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my precious, heavenly messenger,

Please give this message to my beloved Dad, your sweet, Great-Granddad, along with your most enchanting smile. Thank you precious!

Ralph Everett Rewick, Jr.
10-24-1927~01-23-2009

SOME DAYS

They tell me life’s a journey
That will take me many years
Some days are filled with laughter
And some days are filled with tears

Some days I think my heart will break
That I can’t persevere
Some days I have to don a mask
And hide beneath its veneer

Some days I turn and look for you
With thoughts I’d like to share
Some days I just can’t understand
The reason you’re not there

Some days the sadness leaves me
And my smile will reappear
Some days I close my eyes because
Your memory is so clear

Some days I struggle to go on
Just wishing you were near
Most days I spend in gratitude
That you were ever here
(Unknown Author)

My beloved dad,

This poem expresses my own true sentiments. Without you, my life’s journey has been a most difficult, lonely one. Dad, I love and miss you! Heavenly hugs and kisses!
Your most grateful daughter,
Donna

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January 1, 2021

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my precious granddaughter,

As always, I am thinking of you as I embark upon the beginning of a New Year. Like the past, eight New Years, I, again, will experience both sadness and heartache, knowing that, once again, you are no longer a wonderful part of my life! I miss your sweet, earthly presence in my life! You were my glorious gift from God!

I do find solace in the following poem:

His Unfailing Presence

Another year I enter
Its history unknown;
Oh how my feet would tremble
To tread its paths alone!
But I have heard a whisper
I know I shall be blest;
“My presence shall go with thee,
And I will give thee rest.”

What will the New Year bring me?
I may not, must not know; will it be love
and rapture,
Or loneliness and woe?
Hush! Hush! I hear His whisper;
I surely shall be blest;
“My presence shall go with thee,
And I will give thee rest.”
Author Unknown

Calandra, my precious granddaughter,

I do not know the future events in this New Year. I do know that God will be with me. I, again, will put my total faith and trust in Him to help me persevere through another New Year without you. God is my strength, and His divine presence will comfort me always! I love and miss you! Happy New Year in heaven! Hugs and Kisses!

Forever in my heart,
Grandma

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January 1, 2021

Grandma Donna

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December 25, 2020

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my beautiful angel,

It is with profound sadness and flowing tears that I, once again, have to face another Christmas without you. I hold close to my heart your past, earthly, Christmas memories and precious Christmas pictures. I treasure them all immensely!

Calandra, my beautiful angel, God blessed me greatly with a beautiful, earthly angel-you! Seven and one-half years later He then chose to reclaim you for His own heavenly angel.

This Christmas day I will try to derive comfort in envisioning you in heaven in the glorious presence of Jesus. I will envision you and all of the other angels singing birthday praises unto Him. What a most wonderful vision to help sustain me through a most painful and difficult day!

Calandra, my beautiful angel, I love and miss you so very much! You may be gone, but you will never, ever be forgotten! Merry Christmas in heaven! Heavenly hugs and kisses!

Happy Birthday, Jesus!

Grandma Donna

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November 26, 2020

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my precious, heavenly granddaughter,

Another Thanksgiving is upon us. And, sadly, again, it is another Thanksgiving without you! It is a day in which we all give thanks unto God for our many blessings, both big and small. It is also a day in which we think lovingly of all our family and friends who bless our lives. We think of both our earthly family and friends, as well as our heavenly family and friends, who we love and miss dearly. Calandra, my precious, heavenly granddaughter, I love and miss you dearly! I shall always thank God for having blessed me with your sweet, earthly presence! You were the joy of my life! As always, today the tears will flow. And, I, once again, will be putting my faith and trust in God to help me focus on your wonderful memories, your beautiful face and enchanting smile. I know that He will comfort me over your great loss, and that He will give me the much-needed strength to persevere through a most difficult and painful day. God is good!

Calandra, my precious, heavenly granddaughter, please give my heavenly, beloved parents, your heavenly, sweet great-grandparents, hugs and kisses from me. Heavenly hugs and kisses to you, also. I love and miss all of you!

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October 24, 2020

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my darling, heavenly messenger,

Please give this message, along with your enchanting smile, to my beloved parents, your sweet great-grandparents. Thank you, darling!

Ralph Everett Rewick, Jr.
Oct. 24, 1927--Jan. 23, 2009

Geraldine (Gerry) Dottie Rewick
Oct. 24, 1928--Mar. 07, 2012

My dearest parents,

Not a day passes that I do not think of you. Not a day passes that I do not look lovingly upon your framed picture on the wall. Today I am in special thought of you, for today would have been both your mutual, earthly birthdays. Today, as I view your beautiful, framed picture, tears will flow. I shall always cherish and embrace all of the happy, precious memories of your past, earthly birthday celebrations. They are etched forever in both my mind and heart!

I forever will thank God immensely for having blessed me with the two, most special, wonderful, earthly parents! I was so very blessed to have been your earthly daughter!

My dearest parents,

I love and miss you so very much! Thank you for leaving me a most wonderful legacy!
Heavenly hugs and kisses to you both!

Your most grateful daughter
Donna
PS Calandra, darling, I love and miss you, also! Heavenly hugs and kisses!

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August 1, 2020

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my precious granddaughter,
~January 23, 2005-August 01, 2012~

Oh! How I have always dreaded greatly this date each year! Eight years ago today God took you Home to be with Him. And, like the past seven years, I am still plagued always with the horrific events, which led to your untimely death. I cannot purge my mind of the devastating, haunting memories of the days preceding and following your death. They are permanently etched in my mind. In truth, sadly, they overshadow my happy memories of you. I have not been able to find solace and closure from your most tragic, senseless and needless death.

Calandra, my precious granddaughter, I, most assuredly, acknowledge the undeniable fact that I will grieve continuously your immense loss until my earthly life is over. Until that time, I will continue my most lonely, earthly life loving and missing you. And, like years past, today, again, will be filled with painful memories of you and abundant tears. You may be gone from this earth, but you will never, ever be forgotten! I love you! I miss you! Heavenly hugs and kisses!

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June 26, 2020

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my heavenly messenger,

Please give the following message to my beloved parents, your sweet great-grandparents. Please give them your enchanting smile and a big hug and kiss. Thank you, my beautiful, heavenly messenger!

A Heavenly Happy Wedding Anniversary, Mom and Dad!
~JUNE 26, 1947-JUNE 26, 2008~

Mom and Dad,

Today I am celebrating and honoring you both on your most special date. Your sixty-one years of marriage was a true, shining example of what a happy marriage looked like. Your constant, unwavering love for one another and strong, dedicated commitment to one another helped you both to jointly persevere through the many storms of life. Through all of the many struggles and heartaches of life your love grew even more steadfast and stronger with each passing year. You were lifelong soulmates, and it was as if you both shared the same heart and heart beat! You both never had to speak to attest your love for one another, for seeing a shared, loving glance at one another spoke volumes!

Mom and Dad,

It is because of this date, sixty-one years ago, that I exist. It is because of this date, sixty-one years ago, that I, your daughter, was blessed with the two greatest, most incredible, beautiful parents. I am the person I am today because of you both and the love and concern, which you showed not only to me, but to each other, as well. You two were the biggest influence upon my life. You both were my role models. I thank you both for teaching me the true meaning of love. I thank you both for being a living and loving example of what constitutes a loving, strong, stable, successful and long-lasting marriage. When I contemplated upon marriage, I used you both as a model, for you both showed me, by example, the true meaning of love and commitment. You both inspired me to attain the same, loving and enduring values that were present in your own marriage.

Mom and Dad,

Your beautiful love story lives on! You both may be gone, but your loving hand prints are engraved upon my heart forever! I love and miss you both! XOXO

Happy Wedding Anniversary in Heaven!

Your most grateful daughter,
Donna

PS: Calandra, my beautiful granddaughter, I love and miss you, also! Hugs & kisses!

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June 25, 2020

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my beautiful messenger,

Would you please give the following letter, along with your most enchanting smile, to my beloved father, your sweet great-grandfather? Please give him a big hug and kiss from me, your grandmother. Thank you, my beautiful messenger!

A belated Happy Fathers Day greeting: June 21, 2020

Dad,

Due to unforeseen and uncontrollable circumstances, I did not send you a Happy Fathers Day greeting on its designated date this year! I deeply apologize, and I beg your forgiveness! Dad, in truth, I do not need a special day or date each year to convey to you my immense love and great appreciation for you! I celebrate and honor you each day in both mind and heart! You may be gone, but my many, beautiful memories of you and your strong, ever-lasting legacy help immensely to sustain me during my remaining time on earth!

Dad, a belated Happy Fathers Day in heaven to you! I shall always give thanks unto God, for having blessed me with the greatest, earthly father! God is good!

Dad, I love you, and I miss you so very much! Many heavenly hugs and kisses for you!

Your very grateful daughter,
Donna

PS: Calandra, my beautiful granddaughter, I love and miss you, too! Hugs & kisses!

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May 10, 2020

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my precious granddaughter,

Please give this letter to my beloved mother, your sweet great-grandmother. Please give her your enchanting smile and a big hug and kiss from me. Thank you, precious!

Mom,
Happy Mothers Day in heaven! I wish you a most wonderful and glorious day!

Mom,
Every Mothers Day without your beautiful, earthly presence has been a day of much sadness for me! I greatly miss celebrating your very special day with you! There are no more Mothers Day cards, gifts, pictures, and new memories of you! There are no more smiles, laughter, kisses and embraces! Mom, there is no more earthly you!

Mom,
You now reside in my mind in memory! I cherish each and every beautiful one you left me! You now have a very special place in my heart, which is reserved for you only! The years have passed since youve gone, but the loneliness and heartache remain!

Mom,
I finally have faced the reality of knowing that my tears are for me, not you! The tears are from my great loss of you, my missing you! For you, there are no tears but joy in knowing that you are in Gods loving care! You are in Paradise!

I shall always thank God for having blessed me with the loveliest, earthly Mom who was the dearest and the best!

With so much love!
Your grateful daughter,
Donna






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April 12, 2020

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my darling granddaughter,

This Easter morning I am thinking of you, as I do every day! It deeply saddens me that you are no longer here with me! I greatly miss your sweet, earthly presence! I am always searching for pictures and memories of you, which will comfort my heart and sustain me, as I live the rest of my life here without you. It was not difficult for me to find both that picture and memory. It is very evident that this is one of my most favorite pictures of you, for I have included it with some of your past entries. I am holding close to heart a most wonderful memory of you one past Easter. It is of you wearing this pretty dress of soft, multi spring colors, adorned with a large pink sash. Your beautiful, long, brown hair, with the sides swept back and tied with a pink ribbon, framed your most lovely face. You looked so very beautiful that Easter day!

Little did I know that this pretty Easter dress, which I had chosen especially for you, would become your most favorite dress. You wore it several times. In fact, you chose to wear this same Easter dress for your last, earthly, school picture. I shall cherish forever this beautiful picture and memory! Calandra, darling, I shall always cherish you!

Calandra, darling, I pray that on this glorious Easter day everyone will acknowledge and celebrate the true meaning of Easter. Christ is risen! Hallelujah! All praise unto Him!

This is how we know what real love is: Jesus gave His life for us. John 3:16

Calandra, darling, I wish you a heavenly, glorious Easter! Much love, hugs and kisses!

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March 7, 2020

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my darling granddaughter,

Please give this note to my beloved mother, your sweet great-grandmother. Be sure to bless her with your enchanted smile and a big hug and kiss! Thank you, darling!

~In Memory Of My Beloved Mother~
Geraldine (Gerry) Dottie Rewick
October 24, 1928--March 07, 2012

My beloved mother,

This is a sad and tearful day! Today marks the anniversary of your death, eight years ago. I greatly miss your sweet, earthly presence! Without you, my life is incomplete! It now is filled with constant loneliness, which increases with each passing year!

My beloved mother,

I miss your lovely face, beautiful smile and laughter.
I miss your warm embrace and kisses.
I miss our special mother and daughter times together.
I miss our heartfelt conversations.
I miss your sweet, earthly presence.

My beloved mother,

I MISS YOU!

With so much love and gratitude,
Donna

PS Calandra, darling, I love and miss you, too! Heavenly hugs and kisses!

Posted by Grandma Donna

February 14, 2020

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my beloved granddaughter,

In life I loved you dearly

In death I love you still-

In my heart you hold a place

No one could ever fill!

Happy Valentines Day in Heaven to you, my beloved granddaughter!
A day never passes that I do not think of you! I cherish you and miss you with all of my heart! Heavenly hugs and kisses!

Posted by Grandma Donna

January 23, 2020

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my darling,

Will you please give this letter to my beloved father, your sweet great-grandfather, along with your most enchanting smile and a big hug and kiss? Thank you, darling!

~In Loving Memory Of My Father~
Ralph Everett Rewick, Jr, (Ruick)
October 24, 1927-January 23, 2009

My beloved father,

Eleven years ago today God reclaimed you for His own! It is with many tears of sadness that I face this day each year! It also is a day of sweet remembrance of you and how you had so lovingly and generously blessed my life with your amazing presence in it!

My life is so very empty without you! Not a day passes that I do not think of you, and always with love! As I daily gaze upon your photo I quickly am reminded of how much I greatly depended upon you! I never outgrew my immense need for your love, caring, strength, encouragement, guidance and advice!

My beloved father,

I thank you for all of the important life values you instilled within me! You may be gone from my life, but it is extremely important to me that I continue to live my life according to what you would expect of me!

I always wanted you to be proud of me! When I have an accomplishment, something, which I feel would please you, I look up towards Heaven, and I can envision a big smile on your face! I love and miss you so very much! Heavenly hugs and kisses!

Your most grateful daughter,
Donna
PS Calandra, darling, I love and miss you also! Lots of hugs and kisses!

Posted by Grandma Donna

January 23, 2020

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my precious granddaughter,

Today would have been your fifteenth, earthly birthday! Again, it will be a day of much tears and heartache for me, your grandma! I forever am mindful of your great loss, not only on your yearly, earthly birthday, but each and every day! I love and miss you so very much! Heavenly hugs and kisses!

The following beautiful poem and its heartfelt sentiments speak to my heart!

Happy Birthday In Heaven

Happy Birthday up in Heaven
from your family here below.
We love you and we miss you
and want to let you know.

Your birthdays aren't forgotten
and your memory yet lives on.
We celebrate your life with us,
even though you've gone.

Were God to grant us just one wish,
then make that wish come true,
you'd be here right beside us
and we'd share this day with you.

And while here for your birthday
you would be so hugged and kissed,
that you would know before you go
how much youre loved and missed.
© Ron Tranmer

Calandra, my precious granddaughter, it would be so wonderful if God would grant me the one wish in the poem! To be able to celebrate your fifteenth, earthly birthday with one another would abundantly bless and comfort my heart! I would find peace in being able to tell you how very much I loved and missed you! And, I would shower you with lots of hugs and kisses! If only God would grant that one wish! If only!

Posted by Grandma Donna

January 1, 2020

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my beautiful granddaughter,

Another new year has begun, and with it comes many tears of sadness and much heartache! It, again, will be another year without you! My life was changed forever the day God took you to be with Him! I have struggled each day with your most senseless and tragic loss! Nothing, makes any sense, at all! I try to derive comfort from your beautiful pictures and precious memories! However, the tears still flow, and my heart still aches!

Calandra, my beautiful granddaughter, I am so very lonely here on earth without you!
You may be gone, but you will never be forgotten! Your grandma loves you and misses you so very much! Lots of hugs and kisses!

Posted by Grandma Donna

December 25, 2019

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my precious Christmas Angel,

The following beautiful poem speaks to my heart as I, again, celebrate another Christmas without you!

Christmas With Christ

To spend Christmas up in Heaven;
how special it must be,
to celebrate our Savior
with Him there personally.

I'll bet there is no Santa Claus,
or stories of reindeer,
but angel's joyfully singing praise
to Christ as He stands near.

I miss you most at Christmas time
and know you miss me too.
I don't need wrapped up presents
All I really want is you.

So, with faith, Ill carry on
'til were together again.
I love you and await that day.
Merry Christmas until then.

© Ron Tranmer

Calandra, my precious Christmas Angel,

It does comfort my heart to envision you now in Heaven, personally and joyously, celebrating the blessed birth of Jesus Christ! What a most glorious, celestial event!
And, I do hope, one day, to be able to join you in celebration of Christ's holy birth!
A most blessed merry Christmas to you and all of our many loved ones in Heaven!
I love and miss you so very much! Hugs and kisses!

Posted by Grandma Donna

November 28, 2019

Grandma Donna

Calandra,

My most beautiful granddaughter and Angel,

Today is another Thanksgiving Day without you!

Thanksgiving Day is a day set aside every year to give thanks unto God for our many blessings! Every Thanksgiving Day, since God took you to be with Him, I have thanked Him for you, on Thanksgiving Day and always!

I count my many blessings, and one of the greatest, most precious blessings God bestowed upon me was you, my darling! Even though your life here on earth was short-lived, at seven and one-half years, you immeasurably blessed my life with so much love and joy!

Calandra, when I count my many blessings, I count you twice!

I love and miss you! My life has never been the same without you!

Hugs and kisses, my sweet Angel!

PS Please give all of our loved ones with you in heaven a big hug and kiss for me!
Thank you, darling!

Posted by Grandma Donna

August 1, 2019

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my beautiful granddaughter,

January 23, 2005

August 01, 2012

Seven years gone, but never forgotten!!

It is with tears that I write this message to you!
It has been seven empty and lonely years without you, since God took you to be with Him! Today, like the past six years, tears will abundantly flow as I remember the weeks preceding your sudden, untimely death, the horrible events which led to your most tragic, needless and senseless death and the deeply sad and painful years which have followed since your death. I have tried to suppress these extremely painful, agonizing memories and replace them with happier memories of you, but it has been to no avail. The many, horrible memories greatly overshadow all of the good and happy ones. They take me to a deep and dark depressive state of mind, which lingers on for weeks.

Calandra, my beautiful granddaughter,

Every time I read the police and detective reports and view the accident scene photos pertaining to your death, I am completely devastated! Every descriptive detail brings me great heartache, pain and tears! I cannot keep from envisioning your final day on earth! You should never have had to endure such great fear and excruciating pain! I do find comfort in knowing that you are now forever safe in Gods loving arms!

I shall always give thanks unto God that He first took both my parents, both your great-grandparents, to be with Him, before taking you to be with Him! Your terrible death would have devastated them both, for they both greatly loved you! I immensely thank Him for graciously sparing both of them that earthly pain and heartache!

Calandra, my beautiful granddaughter,

I miss your sweet, beautiful presence!! I LOVE YOU!! Heavenly hugs and kisses!!

Grandma Donna

Posted by Grandma Donna

June 26, 2019

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my darling, heavenly messenger,

Please give the following message, along with your enchanting smile, hugs and kisses, to my beloved parents, your sweet great-grandparents. Thank you, darling!

A most blessed, heavenly, wedding anniversary to my dearest parents!

Ralph and Geraldine (Gerry) Rewick
(June 26, 1947-June 26, 2008)

Dearest Mom and Dad,

As a child it was so very comforting to know that you both were always there for me.
As I grew into adulthood and also entered into marriage, my needs significantly may have changed, but your love remained a constant in my life. My different, great needs and love for you both never wavered, for I still greatly depended upon you both for so many things, which only parents could give.

Mom and Dad,

First and foremost, I want to greatly thank you both for the loyal, unselfish and abiding love you both abundantly gave to each other! You both greatly were instrumental in my personal perception of what values I should encompass and cherish in my own marriage. Thank you both for being a living example of what personifies a wonderful, loving, enduring marriage!

Mom and Dad,

I miss your many sentiments of love, great warm embraces and sweet kisses! I greatly miss your loving, beautiful presences in my life!

Heavenly, happy wedding anniversary, Mom and Dad!


Your eternally grateful daughter,
Donna

PS Calandra, darling, I love and miss you, also! Hugs and kisses!

Posted by Grandma Donna

June 16, 2019

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my heavenly messenger,

Please give this message, along with a big hug and kiss, to my beloved father, your sweet great-grandfather. Thank you, precious!

Dad,

Every Father's Day has been a most painful and constant reminder of your absence in my life, since God took you to be with Him, ten years ago! It always has been a day filled with both tears and memories!

Dad,

I wish that I could just turn back time and live out every treasured moment with you! You may be gone, but you will be my life's hero forever! I abundantly thank God for having blessed me with you, the world's greatest Dad!

Happy Father's Day in heaven, Dad! I really miss you!

With so much love!
Your most grateful daughter,

Donna
PS Calandra, I love and miss you, also! Hugs and kisses!

Posted by Grandma Donna

May 12, 2019

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my precious granddaughter,

Would you please deliver the following Mother's Day message to my beloved mother, your sweet great-grandmother, along with your enchanting smile and a big hug and kiss? Thank you, precious!

Mom, the following poem expresses my own, personal Mother's Day sentiments:

My Mom-My Friend

It's an everlasting sadness
That you're no longer here,
But every year on Mother's Day
I like to think you're near.

Your love for me was constant
Your devotion had no end,
You filled my life with sunshine
As a mother and a friend.

So may you know forever
That to me you were the best,
And may you find a gentle peace
In sweet, eternal rest.
Author Unknown

Mom, although this is my eighth Mother's Day without you, I shall always remember and cherish our close, mother-daughter friendship! You may be gone, but you remain forever in both my heart and memory! I love and miss you!

Your most grateful daughter,
Donna
PS Calandra, my precious granddaughter, I love and miss you, also! Heavenly hugs and kisses!

Posted by Grandma Donna

April 21, 2019

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my beautiful Angel,

Happy Resurrection Day!

Praise be to God! John 3:16 KJV

All honor to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ: for it is his boundless mercy that has given us the privilege of being born again so that we are now members of Gods own family. Now we live with the hope of eternal life because Christ rose again from the dead. 1 Peter 1:3 TLB

Praise be to Jesus!

It is because of Jesus Christs resurrection that I, your grandmother, can smile joyously, knowing that you are now in His safe, loving arms! It is because of Him that today, I can happily envision the most wondrous, comforting picture of you, with all of the other little angels, sitting at His feet, singing unto Him hymns of praise and jubilation! Hallelujah!

Happy Resurrection Day to all of my loved ones in heaven! I love and miss them!

Calandra, my beautiful Angel, I love and miss you, too! Heavenly hugs and kisses!

Grandma Donna

Posted by Grandma Donna

March 7, 2019

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my heavenly messenger,

Would you please deliver the following message to my beloved mother, your sweet great-grandmother? Please be sure to give her a big hug and kiss from me! Thank you, my darling!

IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF MY MOM
Geraldine Dottie Rewick (Ruick)
October 24, 1928--March 07, 2012
(Seven years gone, but never forgotten!)

My dearest Mom,

It is so very hard to believe that another year has passed without your beautiful, sweet presence in my life! I am ever so mindful of your great loss, each and every day! However, each year, preceding the anniversary of your death, I experience such great trepidation! It is a most difficult time, for with it comes reliving all of the painful events before and after God took you Home to be with Him! Mom, I realize that my tears of sadness, selfishly, are for me, not you! They come from greatly missing you! I do find much comfort in knowing that you are now with God, who mercifully released you from your long, earthbound suffering! Praise be to Him! Earths loss is truly heavens gain!

Mom, I cling to each of my many, precious memories of you! Although you are gone, I still talk to you! In truth, I feel like a lost child without you! Since your great loss, I have experienced many, difficult and painful times, when I have longed for your comforting, warm embrace and words of soothing encouragement! So many times I have wanted to seek your wise advice! Mom, you may be gone, but you forever will live on in both my heart and memory! You may be gone, but I will still strive to live my life according to the values you taught me! You may be gone, but you still strongly influence and guide my life! Mom, when I achieve something, which I know would please you, I readily can envision a beautiful smile of approval on your lovely face! I want to envision so many more of your beautiful smiles during my earthly lifetime!

Mom, I love you, and I miss you, with all my heart! What a glorious day it will be when I, personally, will see your heavenly, beautiful smile on your lovely face!

My forever love,
Your most grateful daughter,
Donna
PS Calandra, I love and miss you, also! Hugs and kisses, my darling!

Posted by Grandma Donna

February 14, 2019

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my beautiful Valentine,

Today, once more, I wish, with all my heart, that I could see your most beautiful face and sweet, enchanting smile! I wish that I could warmly embrace you and shower you with lots of hugs and kisses! I wish that I could deeply convey to you how very much I still love and miss you! I know in reality that no amount of wishes I make will ever possibly come true!

I have found much-needed comfort in the following poem! If only I could do so!

My Heavenly Valentine

Im sending a dove to heaven
With a parcel on its wings,
Be careful when you open it
Its full of beautiful things.
Inside are a million kisses
Wrapped up in a million hugs,
To say how much I miss you
And to send you all my love.
I hold you close within my heart
And there you will remain,
To walk with me throughout my life
Until we meet again.

Author Unknown

Calandra, my beautiful Valentine, you brought immense happiness and joy to me, your grandmother, in your short, seven and one-half years here on earth! You were such a very special and important part of my life, a most precious, God-given blessing! Your leaving has greatly altered my life forever! You may be gone, but you will remain in both heart and memory forever! Sweet, Valentines Day greetings to both you and all our heavenly loved ones! With so much love! I miss you! OXOXOXOX

Posted by Grandma Donna

January 23, 2019

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my heavenly messenger,

Would you please deliver this message, along with your most enchanting smile, to my beloved dad, your sweet great-granddad? Thank you, my darling!

IN LOVING REMEMBRANCE OF MY DAD
Ralph Everett Rewick, Jr. (Ruick)
October 24, 1927--January 23, 2009
(Ten years gone, but never forgotten!)

Dad, I am constantly searching for inspirational poems which bless my heart with comfort and peace. I found the following poem:

It's a Time of Heartfelt Sadness

It's a time of heartfelt sadness
When a loved one passes on
But know your loved one lives in joy
And peace where he has gone

Oh how much he will be missed
That's where the sadness lies
But others who have missed him
Now rejoice in Heaven's skies

We know one day we'll join him
Because our time on earth will flee
We'll then live with him forever
Throughout all eternity.
©Ron Tranmer

Dad, today is a time of heartfelt sadness! In truth, it has been ten years of heartfelt sadness for me, since God called you Home! The sentiments of this poem ring so true! My constant sadness from your great loss comes from my forever missing you! My beloved dad, I do find immense comfort in knowing that you now are peacefully and joyfully in the heavenly company of dearest Mom, brother Ed, darling Calandra, and other family members and friends! One day I, too, will join all of my loved ones for all eternity! What a glorious day that will be!

Dad, you are forever loved and forever missed! Heavenly hugs and kisses!

Your loving daughter,
Donna

Posted by Grandma Donna

January 23, 2019

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my beloved granddaughter,

Your fourteenth, earthly birthday would have been, should have been, today!
Every day, and, especially every year on your birthday, upon looking at your beautiful pictures, I try to envision what you would have looked like today! What would you have looked like today, if God had not chosen to reclaim you for His own, at the short, mere years of seven and one-half? I can only envision it!!

Calandra, my beloved granddaughter, I think back upon the last time I saw you! Before departing, I had remarked to you how very tall you had grown! I now envision you very possibly being the same height as me! You were so very beautiful! Your long, brown, silky hair framed your lovely face of glowing, porcelain skin with faintly, sprinkled freckles across your cute nose! Your beautiful, big, blue eyes and long eyelashes, along with your lovely, enchanting smile, were mesmerizing! You had a slight, girlish figure! You were perfect, in every way! You were so very beautiful then! So, without a doubt, your earthly being would have been even more beautiful today!!

Today, as my tears fall and my heart aches over your great loss, I will remember to give thanks unto God for having blessed my life with your sweet presence! Your earthly years were short, but your abundant love and beautiful spirit touched the hearts and lives of so many, especially your grandma!!

Calandra, my beloved granddaughter, it deeply saddens me that we both can no longer celebrate your earthly birthdays with one another! However, I am clinging to a most wonderful and beautiful vision I have of you today! That vision is of you celebrating your heavenly birthday today in the magnificent, loving presence of Jesus and all of the angels!! I will greatly embrace this wonderful and beautiful vision today! And, I know that I will derive great peace and comfort from it! It will be a blessing to my heart!!

Calandra, my beloved granddaughter, I wish you a most heavenly Happy Birthday!

Loving and missing you always! Heavenly hugs and kisses!

Grandma Donna

Posted by Grandma Donna

January 1, 2019

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my precious angel,
2019

Another year has passed, and another new year has begun!! I do not possibly know what to expect in this new year of 2019-only God knows! But, with utmost certainty, I do know that it will be another year without you, my precious angel! Every day, every year, since God reclaimed you, I have grieved for you, longed for you, cried for you, loved you, missed you, talked to you and wanted you! I have greatly missed seeing your beautiful face and enchanting smile! I have greatly missed feeling your soft touch, and hearing your sweet voice and gleeful laughter! I have greatly missed everything about you!

Life will never be the same without you, but I know that Gods love and much-needed prayers will help me persevere through, yet, another year without you, my precious angel!

Calandra, my precious angel, a most heavenly, Happy New Year in Heaven! I will forever love and miss you with all my heart! Hugs and kisses!

PS. Happy New Year, also, to all my departed loved ones! They, too, are greatly loved and missed!

Posted by Grandma Donna

December 27, 2018

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my beautiful granddaughter,

Today is a day of immense sorrow! Your uncle Scotts beloved Jack Russell Terrier dog, Dice, sadly departed from this earth early this morning! Dice was such a great, God given gift to all of us, but especially to your uncle Scott! For thirteen years, he was blessed with Dices unfaltering, devoted love for him! They both always immensely loved one another! Wherever Scott was, there, too, was Dice! They both were inseparable! Understandably, your uncle Scott is heartbroken and devastated over his loss! I pray to God that your uncle Scotts many precious memories of Dice will help him to persevere over his loss! May God bless and comfort your uncle Scott during this most difficult time and always!

Calandra, my beautiful granddaughter, I strongly want to believe that God, also, has a heaven for all of his beautiful creatures! That they, too, will someday be in a most glorious paradise where they are forever young and free from their earthly pain and suffering! I would love to envision both you and Dice running together in a beautiful, flowered meadow, with you gleefully laughing and Dice happily barking as you toss his favorite, green tennis ball for him to catch!! What a beautiful and comforting vision!! IF ONLY!!

I will forever love and miss Dice, and, you, too, my beautiful granddaughter!! Hugs and kisses!!

Posted by Grandma Donna

December 25, 2018

Grandma Donna

Posted by Grandma Donna

December 25, 2018

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my precious Angel,

Every Christmas, since God took you to heaven to be with him, I have struggled to get through the day.
You may be seven Christmases gone, but the heartache and tears remain ever present.

The following poem expresses my exact sentiments:

A Christmas Message

Christmastime brings back memories
that are still painful to bear.
You were ever so special and ever so dear.

The loss is still indescribable,
especially at this time of year.
I dearly miss you not being here.

You may have been taken out of sight,
but nothing can take you out of my heart.
You live forever in my memories,
from where you could never depart.
As I remember you this Christmas season,
I cherish my memories of you and always will.
Author Unknown

Christmas hugs and kisses, my precious Angel! I love and miss you!

Posted by Grandma Donna

November 22, 2018

Grandma Donna

My most beautiful granddaughter, my sweet angel,

On this day of Thanksgiving I give special thanks to God for having had blessed me with you! Sadly, your young life was short-lived here on earth. However, thankfully, your many, precious memories live on, forever stored in my mind. Today, like so many, other days, when thoughts of you are followed by tears, I try to focus on a past, happy memory of you which, hopefully, will replace my tears with a smile.

Presently, I am sitting here in front of the computer, tearfully thinking of you while trying to compose an entry message to submit in your online, guestbook. Praise be to God, suddenly a most endearing memory of you surfaced from my mind and flashed before my eyes! That most cherished memory was of you, my sweet angel, at the young age of ten months. You were sitting upon the carpeted floor, dressed in a cute, coral outfit, surrounded with your many, colorful toys, with your little hands in motion and a big, beaming smile upon your beautiful face! This memory is very special to me, for it was precious, quality, interaction time enjoyed between a granddaughter and grandmother! My sweet angel, you loved to hear me, your grandmother, sing the silly, song, "patty-cake". Upon hearing this funny song, you would immediately smile your enchanting smile and gleefully clap your little hands together in unison to it.

My sweet angel, today, as I am in loving remembrance of you, I am so very grateful for that precious memory. It has already replaced my tears with a smile! I find great comfort in knowing that it will help to sustain me during this most difficult day and the many days and years to follow. I will forever thank God for His mercy and love! For all the many days, which I have struggled to get through over your great loss, I thank Him for seeing me through each and every one!. I am forever grateful to Him for blessing me with His love and strength! I, also, am profoundly appreciative for all of the many, continuous prayers of family members, relatives and friends. I am truly blessed!

A most joyous, heavenly Thanksgiving Day to you, my most beautiful granddaughter, my sweet angel!
I love and miss you so very much!! Hugs and kisses!

Posted by Grandma Donna

October 24, 2018

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my darling,

Today I am in fond remembrance of my two, beloved parents, your two, sweet great-grandparents. They both would have celebrated their mutual, earthly birthdays on this very date. I try to find comfort in the many, beautiful memories I have of them both. I abundantly thank God for having blessed me with such wonderful and caring parents! They both are gone, but never, ever forgotten!

Calandra, my darling, please give both your great-grandparents a big hug and kiss from me! Please tell them both that I, their daughter, love and miss them so very much! Thank you, darling!

My love, hugs and kisses to you, also, my darling! I greatly miss you!

Posted by Grandma Donna

August 1, 2018

Grandparent

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my beloved granddaughter,

~Jan. 23, 2005-Aug. 01, 2012~

Six years ago today your most beautiful presence tragically departed from this earth. On that horrible, fateful day my world shattered. At first I was in a state of disbelief. I just wanted it all to go away, like a bad dream. But, eventually, I, painfully, had to accept both the reality and finality of your death. It was then that I started experiencing many, different, emotional feelings. They greatly compounded my ever-present, consuming grief over your loss. In truth, six years later, I am still plagued with those same emotions. Some days are better than others. There are days, in fact many, when your precious memories, beautiful pictures, darling clothes and adorable dolls bring forth tears of sadness. Then, occasionally, there have been a few days when, upon seeing a hovering hummingbird, a fluttering butterfly, a beautiful flower, a cute rabbit or a colorful balloon, a smile immediately emerges upon my face. They all happily remind me of you and the apparent, great joy and melodious laughter you so sweetly exhibited upon seeing them.

Calandra, my beloved granddaughter, I have tried to find inner-peace and comfort over your great loss. I sincerely believe that it is an earthly impossibility. Not until I draw my last breath, will I finally receive the inner-peace and comfort I desired on earth! There will be no more sorrow, heartache, tears or pain! Hallelujah!

Calandra, my beloved granddaughter, I love & miss you!

Hugs & Kisses!

This is your last picture taken on April 28, 2012.

You are so beautiful!

Posted by Grandma Donna

July 19, 2018

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my lovely granddaughter,

Yesterday, July 18, 2018, an amazing surprise happened to me, your grandma. That totally unexpected surprise was a much-appreciated email from Shawn C. Fuller, your wonderful Gila County Chief Deputy Attorney prosecutor who obtained your earthly justice! I was elated to hear from him, for I, unfortunately, had lost contact with him. His email content with such sweet sentiments about you brought me much joy! They greatly touched my heart!

I forever will be grateful to Shawn C. Fuller for his arduous work and faithful dedication in obtaining your much-deserved, earthly justice!

May God richly and abundantly bless him and his beautiful family!

Calandra, my lovely granddaughter, I love and miss you so very much!! Hugs & Kisses!!

Posted by Grandma Donna

June 17, 2018

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my heavenly messenger,



Would you please give my dad, your great-granddad, the follow message? Please give him your beautiful, enchanting smile and a big hug and kiss from me. Thank you, my beauty!



Dad, today is another Father’s Day without you! I greatly miss all of the very special and loving times we shared with one another, as father and daughter, each Father’s Day! You always welcomed me with a big, warm embrace and a sweet, gentle kiss! Dad, I miss your smile and laughter! I miss everything about you! You were my hero, and the first man I ever loved! If I could give you a Father’s Day card today, if you were still my earthly father, it would include the heart-felt sentiments from the
following poem by Ron Tranmer.



The Greatest Dad Of All!

The Good Lord must have told me,

when it came my time for birth,

that I could have my pick

of any dad upon the earth.

I must have looked around

at every father I could see.

I’ll bet He smiled when I said

you were the dad for me.

How richly I am blessed

to have a dad like you.

Your love and great example

guides my life in all I do.

Whether it was I who chose you,

Or God who made the call…

In my heart, I know I have

the greatest dad of all!



(c)Ron Tranmer



Dad, I love this poem, for if God had given me the choice of who my dad would have been, it most assuredly, would have been you! Your were such a wonderful, God-given blessing to me, your daughter, and you were the greatest dad of all!!



Dad, you are always with me in both heart and memory! Happy Father’s Day in heaven! LOVE YOU!



Your grateful daughter,

Donna



PS Calandra, I love and miss you! Hugs & Kisses!



Grandma Donna

Posted by Grandma Donna

May 13, 2018

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my heavenly messenger,

Would you please give the following message and Mother's Day poem to my dearest mother, your loving great-grandmother, along with your enchanting smile? Thank you, my darling!

Mother, today is Mother's Day and with it comes many tears, as I recall the many, beautiful memories of you! This day reminds me of all the priceless things I miss about you! The pain of your loss is ever present, the void in my heart never filled, and, I, so very often, find myself looking skyward and calling your name! I love and miss you so very much, my dearest mother!

I find comfort in the words of the following poem:

Happy Mother's Day In Heaven

I love and miss you, mom,
and though you've passed away,
you'll never be forgotten,
for I think of you each day.

If heaven celebrated this day
how special it will be,
A gathering of the many moms
upon our family tree.

Your mother and grandmother
and great grandmother too.
How wonderful it is, that they
can spend this day with you.

May you know how much I love you
though I'm here and you are there.
Happy Mother's Day in heaven
to the best mom anywhere!

(c) Ron Tranmer

Mom, God-willing, someday I will celebrate Mother's Day in heaven with you, grandma, great-grandma, and great-great grandma, including our beautiful Calandra! It would be a most joyous, celebration!

A heavenly Mother's Day to you, mom! Hugs and kisses to both you and Calandra!

Your loving daughter,
Donna

Calandra, I love and miss you, too!

Posted by Grandma Donna

April 1, 2018

Grandparent

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my special angel,

I found the following Easter poem:

Easter up in Heaven,
A very special time.
All the angels gather,
On this wonderful day sublime.
Jesus Christ has risen,
Up to Heaven above.
All the angels singing
About Gods endless love.

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Happy Easter to all my loved ones in Heaven!

Calandra, my special angel,
Although you cannot be with me today, I know that you are with Jesus. You are one of the little angels who is singing praises to Him today on Easter and always. I find comfort in knowing that Jesus loves you, and that He will always stay close beside you to guard and guide you. I miss your sweet, earthly presence, my special angel! I am so lonely here without you! LOVE YOU!

Posted by Grandma Donna

March 7, 2018

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my darling granddaughter,

Would you please give the following message to your great-grandmother, my mother, along with your most enchanting smile? Thank you, darling!
My beloved mother, today is a day of both profound sadness and sweet remembrance of you. God reclaimed you to be with Him six years ago today. Time goes on, but the pain of losing you is ever present!
I found the following poem which speaks volumes as to how I, your daughter, felt having had you for my most amazing mother! I was so very blessed!

~Geraldine Dottie Rewick~
Oct. 24, 1928--Mar. 07, 2012

THE DAY YOU WENT AWAY
Today like many other days brings special thoughts of you;
of happy times we shared and caring things you used to do;
And once more it's a reminder that life's road is sometimes rough
because the time we shared just wasn't long enough!
For you were someone special who was thought so highly of
who'll always be remembered with affection, warmth and love;
So sending thoughts to heaven on the day you went away
and hope you know you're missed more than words could ever say!
~Author Unknown~

Six years gone, but never, ever forgotten!

Mother, with so much love,
Donna

Calandra, darling, I love and miss you too! Hugs and kisses!

Posted by Grandma Donna

January 26, 2018

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my beautiful granddaughter,

There are so many things which remind me of you. On what would have been, should have been, your thirteenth, earthly birthday-- Jan. 23, 2018--three days ago, I entered an image of a blue
13 balloon with your entry. I have added balloon images with your past entries, due to the fact that you loved balloons! This was a known fact, for everytime we visited Red Robin you would leave with a colorful balloon and a big smile on you lovely face!

Understandably, at your graveside balloons were released in sweet remembrance of you. I am adding another balloon image today in recognition of what would have been your earthly, thirteenth birthday three days ago. I, most assuredly, will be adding more future balloon images, especially with your birthday entries.

Calandra, my beautiful granddaughter, I immensely love and miss you! Hugs and kisses!

Posted by Grandma Donna

January 23, 2018

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my precious granddaughter,
Jan. 23, 2005 ~ Aug. 01, 2012

It is hard for me to accept the fact that today would have been your thirteenth, earthly birthday. Today you would have celebrated being a teenager! I try to close my eyes and envision how much more grown up and beautiful you would have evolved at the age of thirteen years old! Tragically, senselessly and needlessly, you were robbed of your innocent, precious life at the tender age of seven and one-half years old.

My precious Calandra, in your short seven and one-half years on earth you touched my heart with laughter, you blessed my life with happiness and abundantly filled my heart with love! It is for these reasons, these treasured gifts, that I often cry tears of sadness. The void I feel in my heart over your great loss is overwhelming at times, and the reality of knowing that I am destined to live my entire, earthly life without you, my beautiful granddaughter, tears at my heart!

I may not be able to celebrate your earthly birthday with you today, but I will CELEBRATE YOU in my heart every day! A blessed, heavenly birthday to you, my precious granddaughter!
Birthday Hugs & Kisses!
I LOVE & MISS YOU!

Posted by Grandma Donna

January 23, 2018

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my darling,

Will you please give the following message, along with your beautiful smile, to my dad, your great-grandfather? Also, please give him a big hug and kiss from me. Thank you, my darling!

In Loving Memory Of A Very Dear Dad:
Ralph Everett Rewick, Jr.
Oct. 24,1927 ~ Jan. 23, 2009
(Nine years without you!)

Dad, there are so many things I wish I had said and done, but sadly can no longer do, now that you are gone. But I want you to know, that although you are out of sight, you will always be in my heart. I want you to know that I will always cherish you, I will always love and remember you.

You are too precious to ever be forgotten, and too priceless to ever be replaced. You were one in a million, and you will always be the precious and unique Dad I cared for so dearly.

Forever you will live on, in my thoughts, and never die, and until that day, when we shall meet again,I will continue to cherish all of my many memories of you. Dad, I love and miss you so very much!

Your forever grateful daughter,
Donna

Posted by Grandma Donna

January 1, 2018

Grandma Donna

My precious Calandra,

Another new year is upon me, another year to endure without precious you. All of my many memories and shed tears, precious, can never bring me earthly comfort. I only can envision a lifetime of loneliness without you. A heavenly New Year's day to you and our departed loved ones. Loving and missing you with all my heart! OXOX

Posted by Grandma Donna

December 25, 2017

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my Heavenly Angel,

Today is filled with sadness for me, your grandmother, for it will be the sixth Christmas without your sweet, earthly presence. I try to find comfort in all of your priceless, precious memories, during your short, seven and one-half years. Oh, how I wish that there could have been more! I miss you so very much! I am so very lonely here without you!

I try to find comfort in the following poem:

Christmas Memories of an Angel in Heaven

There's a very special place beyond the skies above,
somewhere very peaceful that is full of light and love.

That special place is Heaven where you're free to laugh and roam.
It was your time to go there so the angels took you Home.

And, though you're in my thoughts each single day throughout the year,
at special times like Christmas I wish you could be here.

Now you're in a better place, your soul is laid to rest,
safe with all the angels, for they only take the best.

Author Unknown

Calandra, Merry Christmas, my Heavenly Angel!
I LOVE YOU! Hugs & Kisses!

Posted by Grandma Donna

November 23, 2017

Grandma Donna

My dearest, darling Calandra,

Today is Thanksgiving,and my thoughts are of you, my beautiful granddaughter! My deepest gratitude I give to God for having allowed me the great opportunity and privilege of having had your sweet, precious, earthly presence in my life! Although that time was too short, a mere seven and one half years, you left a forever, heart-felt handprint upon my heart! I, your grandmother, love and miss you so very much! I am so very lonely here on earth without you! You may be gone but never forgotten!

My dearest, darling Calandra, I wish you a most wonderful Thanksgiving in Heaven!

Hugs and Kisses!
Grandma Donna

Posted by Grandma Donna

August 1, 2017

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my beautiful granddaughter,

The following poem conveys my great fear of forgetting you as the years pass.

Will I Forget?

After five long years of missing you,
I have a newborn fear;
That as time goes by my mind will fail,
And your memory won't be clear.

Already I have problems in
Remembering the sound
Your sweet voice made in speaking-
Oh, where can it be found?

I have photos by the hundreds,
And your face will always be
Engraved upon my very heart,
For you're the heart of me.

But how I long to hear your voice
And see your loving smile!
To gaze upon your precious face,
And talk with you a while.

I can't believe it's been five years-
It seems like yesterday;
Yet it also seems a million years
Since you went away.

Time doesn't work the way it did
When you were still on earth;
Sometimes it crawls sometimes it flies,
It's hard to know time's worth.

But five years gone is five years less
I have to live alone,
And as the years roll slowly by,
Someday I'll be called Home.

And then I'll get to be with you,
For all eternity,
How precious, then, will be our time,
Each day a symphony!

Saralyn McAfee Smith http://robbiesmith.com

Calandra, my beautiful granddaughter, I have not forgotten you! You are in my daily thoughts! I pray that I will remember you until the moment I draw my last breath! I love and miss you!!
Hugs and Kisses!

Posted by Grandma Donna

June 26, 2017

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my beloved granddaughter,

Please deliver this message to my parents, your great-grandparents. Please give them both a big hug and kiss from me. Thank you, my beloved granddaughter!

Dearest Mom and Dad,

Today's date is of great importance to me, for it would have been your earthly, 70th wedding anniversary. I shall always acknowledge this yearly date! And, I shall always be in fond remembrance of the 58 years you both so lovingly shared with one another! Your deep, abiding love for one another grew even more with each passing year!

Mom and Dad, I shall always be grateful to you both for showing me, by example, the true meaning of love! Your strong commitment and devotion to one another and your marriage was greatly inspiring to me, as well as others! Your beautiful union was one to be greatly admired and respected!

Mom and Dad, I love and cherish you both! And, I miss you both so very much! I try to find comfort in knowing that now you both are loving soul mates in heaven, as you were here on earth! It is so very fitting that your double headstone bears the inscription, Together Forever!

With fond remembrance and deepest love,
Your daughter,
Donna

PS Calandra, my beloved granddaughter, I shall always love and miss you, also! Hugs and Kisses!

Posted by Grandma Donna

June 19, 2017

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my precious angel,

Please give the following message to your great-grandfather, along with your enchanted smile. Please give him a big hug and kiss from me. Thank you, angel!

My beloved father, although this Father's Day message is a day late, always know that I do not need a special, denoted, yearly date to think of you and express my love, respect and admiration for you. I have honored you, my dear, beloved father, in both heart and mind, during your entire earthly existence, and even now, as I still mourn your great loss!

The following letter conveys my exact, heart-felt sentiments for you, my beloved father.

What can you say to someone who had always been one of the most essential parts of your world, someone who took you by the hand when you were little and helped to show you the way?

What do you say to someone who had stood by to help you grow, providing love, strength and support so you could become the person you are today?

What can you say to let him know that he was the best there was and that you hope you've inherited some of his great wisdom and his strength?

What would you say if you ever got the chance? Maybe you would say, I love you Father and hope he understands.

My beloved father, I, personally, cannot express these heart-felt words to you. But, I will always deeply cherish you! You so wonderfully and lovingly blessed my life, and I will forever thank God for you!! I love and miss you!!

Your forever, grateful daughter,
Donna

P.S. Calandra, my precious angel, I love and miss you too!! Hugs and kisses!!

Posted by Grandma Donna

May 14, 2017

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my precious angel messenger,

Today is Mother's Day! Would you please give the following Mother's Day message to my mother, your great-grandmother? Thank you, precious!

My beloved mother, today will be my fifth Mother's Day without you since God took you to be with Him. I love and miss you so very much, but I try to find comfort in knowing that you are now in God's keeping, forever free from your earthly pain and suffering.

Mom, I will never be able to adequately express to you how very much your abundant love and joy blessed my life! I can only convey to you the following sincere, heart-felt sentiments.

My wonderful, beloved mom, your beautiful smiles brightened my every moment, your warm hugs put abundant joy in all my days. Your over-flowing love will stay with me forever, for it touched my heart in an incredible, magnanimous way. I will forever be grateful to you for all the important values you taught me. I know that they were greatly instrumental in molding me into the person I am today. Mom, for all your endless love, care, concern, support and countless sacrifices, I could never fully repay you during your earthly existence. I can only sincerely convey to you that you and they tremendously enriched my life in more ways than I can count! I LOVE YOU, MOM!

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY IN HEAVEN!
Your grateful daughter,

Donna

P.S. Calandra, precious, I love and miss you, also! I greatly miss your sweet voice calling me "mom"! Hugs and kisses!

Posted by Grandma Donna

March 7, 2017

Grandma Donna

Calandra, my darling, heavenly messenger,

Would you please give my beloved mother, your sweet great-grandmother, the following poem?
It greatly touches my heart, for its beautiful words encompass my own, sincere thoughts and feelings about her precious life and courageous death. Thank you, darling!

Geraldine D. Rewick
Oct. 24, 1928~Mar. 07, 2012

Wating at Heaven's Door

Death beckoned her with outstretched hand
And whispered softly of an unknown land,
But she was not afraid to go
For though the path she did not know
She took death's hand without a fear
For God who safely brought her here
Had promised He would lead the way
Into eternity's bright day.

For none of us need go alone
Into the valley that is unknown,
But, guided by our Father's hand
We journey to the promised land.

She was your special loving Mother
You shared your lives with one another,
And you'll find comfort for your grief
In knowing her death brought sweet relief.
For, now she is free from all suffering and pain
And your great loss became her gain...

You know that her love is with you still
For she loved you in life and always will.
Love like hers can never end
Because it is the perfect blend
Of joy and sorrows, smiles and tears,
That just grew stronger with the years.
Love like hers can never die
For she's taken it with her to the sky...

So think of your mother as living above
No farther away than your undying love,
For now she is happy and free once more
And she's waiting for you at Heaven's door.
~Helen Steiner Rice~

My Beloved Mother,

It has been five years since God took you home to be with Him!
I shall always thank Him for having blessed me with your sweet, earthly existence! You were a wonderful, loving and caring mother, who was also my best friend and confidante! Envisioning your most beautiful, heavenly self waiting at Heaven's door brings me much-needed comfort! Mother, I deeply love and miss you!

Your eternally grateful daughter,
Donna

Calandra, darling, I also deeply love and miss you! Hugs and kisses, my darling!

Posted by Grandma Donna

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